--- title: first linktitle: first description: "Slices an array to only the first _N_ elements." godocref: date: 2017-02-01 publishdate: 2017-02-01 lastmod: 2017-02-01 categories: [functions] menu: docs: parent: "functions" keywords: [iteration] signature: ["first LIMIT COLLECTION"] workson: [lists,taxonomies,terms,groups] hugoversion: relatedfuncs: [after,last] deprecated: false aliases: [] --- ``` {{ range first 10 .Pages }} {{ .Render "summary" }} {{ end }} ``` *Note: Exclusive to `first`, LIMIT can be '0' to return an empty array.*